Fabian Samuel is the cofounder of the League of Extraordinary Gamers. A fan of first-person shooters and real-time strategy games, Fabian Samuel helped the League of Extraordinary Gamers become the top PC and console gaming center in India.
The first-person shooter genre is one of the most popular categories of PC and home gaming in modern times. The Doom series of games, and more recently, Call of Duty and Halo, are examples of how a first-person shooter presents gamers with an intimate perspective of their surroundings and the action playing out before them. In most cases, a player will see no more than his or her hands as they take in events through their character’s eyes.
The modern first-person shooter can be traced back to Catacomb-3D in 1991, developed by John Carmack. The title exchanged a traditional bird’s-eye view for a concentrated viewpoint that put the player into the shoes of the character he or she controlled. After gaming studios took note of the engrossing nature of Catacomb’s game play, Wolfenstein-3D was released as a free PC demo the following year. When Wolfenstein-3D went on to become a major success, copycat games began hitting the market with regularity, and the first-person shooter genre was effectively born.
The first-person shooter genre is one of the most popular categories of PC and home gaming in modern times. The Doom series of games, and more recently, Call of Duty and Halo, are examples of how a first-person shooter presents gamers with an intimate perspective of their surroundings and the action playing out before them. In most cases, a player will see no more than his or her hands as they take in events through their character’s eyes.
The modern first-person shooter can be traced back to Catacomb-3D in 1991, developed by John Carmack. The title exchanged a traditional bird’s-eye view for a concentrated viewpoint that put the player into the shoes of the character he or she controlled. After gaming studios took note of the engrossing nature of Catacomb’s game play, Wolfenstein-3D was released as a free PC demo the following year. When Wolfenstein-3D went on to become a major success, copycat games began hitting the market with regularity, and the first-person shooter genre was effectively born.